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" I&amp;#039;ve passed the second screening test for a clinical trial on whether a combination of exercise or yoga and omega-3 fish oil can reduce hot flashes, and though I&amp;#039;m committed to doing this, so far it&amp;#039;s more work than I expected. And the real trial hasn&amp;#039;t even started. This is just the preamble. I&amp;#039;m doing it in part because I&amp;#039;m firm believer in clinical trials and long wanted to participate in one. How else would we learn what works and what doesn&amp;#039;t in women&amp;#039;s health? As far as I know, mice don&amp;#039;t have hot flashes, nor could they record them in a diary as I must do. I&amp;#039;m also wearing an activity monitor that measures movement during the day and a sleep wristband that I can&amp;#039;t take off that monitors motion and thus can tell when I&amp;#039;m sleeping. &amp;quot;Cool watch mommy,&amp;quot; Max said when he saw it. I explained it wasn&amp;#039;t a watch, yet I find myself reflexively looking at it for the time and instinctively wanting to take it off. And then there&amp;#039;s the saliva samples I have to collect, and the stress test that I was afraid I&amp;#039;d fail because I was stressed about it. But I&amp;#039;m not complaining. Not really. It&amp;#039;s only day 1, for goodness sake, and it&amp;#039;s for a good cause. I&amp;#039;m grateful to all the women who&amp;#039;ve gone before me in clinical trials, wittingly and unwittingly, and I only hope to contribute something to those who will face this transition after me. Now if I can just get through the next ten days and find a way to inconspicuously wear all this equipment. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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